Worcester again

GF has checked into the hotel (room swapped) and is settling in for this week's trip. One thing about the Fownes is that the heating is good... and it's well needed tonight. Not quite the -42F that it hit in Minnesota last night, but a cool 2C. Snow is forecast for tomorrow.

Dinner was taken at our favoured Chinese Restaurant. Seven of us did significant damage to the menu and their selection of bottled beers. Discussions revolved around work, technology, and the meaning of life (well, maybe not the meaning of life).

The story came out about the power cut.

Worcester was hit with a power cut yesterday. Lights, computers, microwaves, kaput. After a few hours the National Grid was re-routed, lights came back on, the Tannoy spluttered into life "Please delay switching on your computers" ... and then again "Please refrain from using kettles until the power is fully restored".

Needless to say Starfleet was pilloried for not having a generator in front of the servers. Actually, the client never had a generator when they ran the system, and would not pay for the a DR service whne Starfleet took over.. but it's still Starfleet's fault.